Both Uses of
Palestine
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- All your skill was used up ages ago in Palestine, and you must lie fallow for a thousand years to git strength for more deeds!'†
Chpt 3 *Palestine = a geographic region on the Eastern Coast of the Mediterranean in the Middle East, at various times comprising parts of modern Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and Egypt
- Once upon a time Angel had been so unlucky as to say to his father, in a moment of irritation, that it might have resulted far better for mankind if Greece had been the source of the religion of modern civilization, and not Palestine; and his father's grief was of that blank description which could not realize that there might lurk a thousandth part of a truth, much less a half truth or a whole truth, in such a proposition.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
a geographic region on the Eastern Coast of the Mediterranean in the Middle East, at various times comprising parts of modern Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and Egypt
Also known as the Holy Land because of its history for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.